19+ hour, 24+ min ago  (1053+ words) With the emergence of the non-clinical, community-led safe spaces model, Australia's approach to suicide prevention is changing. For decades, suicide prevention has largely sat within the clinical mental health system. Hospitals, crisis services and mental health professionals play a vital…...

19+ hour, 15+ min ago  (373+ words) With the support of the Australian Government and Australia's Minister for Health and Ageing, and Minister for Disability and the National Disability Insurance Scheme, Mark Butler, the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (the Commission) has announced…...

19+ hour, 19+ min ago  (212+ words) Professor Jacqui Pich. Image: Supplied Angus Stevens. Image: Supplied The announcement followed the results of a'recent NSW Nurses and Midwives Association survey'that found 88% of nurses, midwives and carers have witnessed violence or aggression at work. 1 Protecting the people who protect…...

22+ hour, 4+ min ago  (500+ words) A global clinical trial involving more than 150 hospitals has challenged the position of flucloxacillin as the default treatment for MSSA and PSSA infections. More than one million deaths per year are caused by golden staph infections, the most serious form…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago  (681+ words) Healthcare is the highest-stakes environment there is. Lives, public trust and scarce resources are all on the line. When governance, risk and compliance processes break down, the consequences are not just operational. They can affect patient safety, staff wellbeing, funding,…...

1+ week, 18+ hour ago  (343+ words) It shifts the main focus from complying with accreditation requirements to building the culture of the organisation to one in which delivery of high-quality care is the core focus of everyone in a health service, every day," the Commission added....

1+ week, 19+ hour ago  (544+ words) In a record penalty, a Sydney man has been sentenced to two years" jail and ordered to pay $51, 900 in legal costs after pleading guilty to 16 breaches of the National Law. Ahpra laid the charges against the man who has never…...

1+ week, 23+ hour ago  (646+ words) In Australia's hospitals, the solution to rising incidents of burnout and psychosocial hazards may lie not only in increased resources, but also in the positive impact of effective, supportive management. Australia's hospitals are confronting a predicament that would test even…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (444+ words) For projects to achieve life-improving treatments for people as they age, the Australian Government has announced an additional $22. 9m in research grants into dementia, the leading cause of death in Australia. As part of the Dementia, Ageing and Aged Care Mission…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (415+ words) The WA Government has brokered a deal for Bethesda Health Care to take over operation of'Mount Private Hospital from its current operator Healthscope, which entered receivership in May 2025. The deal is to ensure continuity of hospital operations and the delivery…...